Necessity Isn’t Always the Mother of Invention

I just watched a TED video where Steven Johnson shares the story of how a flute made by a pre-historic man led to the creation of a tech revolution, that is the computer. You can watch the TED video here or below. He goes on to argue that not all inventions  come from necessity and that there is a good possibility that people who have fun invariably invent new stuff that enables them to have fun, the kind that they want. In all the Design Thinking workshops that I moderate, I have three rules for all participants: One conversation at […]